To Ignore Is to Deny: E. W. Kemble's Racial Caricature as Popular Art

Aside from the stunning efforts of African American artists like Romare Bearden, Raymond Saunders, Faith Ringgold, and Betye Saar (who owns a copy of Kemble's Coons) to give visual form to the growing gulf between the white American dream and the black American reality, few white artists have addressed the issue of race.